Get Nicked: Same-sex marriage, elevated trolls and bad campaigning

And no doubt a lot of people around the world would be second-guessing themselves.

"Hang on, didn't this happen a few days ago? Hang on, was it Austria or Australia who legalised this? Hang on, why do these two countries essentially have the same name."

Get Nicked certainly hopes there were no unscrupulous journalists who simply reported on the Australian news by adding a few letters to the story from two days earlier.

Frankly this column is glad for the law change for all the usual reasons, as well as a particularly obscure one – it'd be nice to go back to liking Bob Katter despite his quirky views, instead of disliking him for his outdated ones.

Speaking of the amendment, Get Nicked has a million questions about this particular photo:

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It's an undeniably heartwarming photo. Labor MP Linda Burney being swept up in the arms of the LNP's Warren Entsch.

Both have been long-time advocates of same-sex marriage, so it was beautiful to see them put aside their party partisanship in this moment of joy.

But Get Nicked wants to know what happened in the seconds before the photo. From the look of it, Burney either took a flying leap from the top of the frontbench to land in Entsch's arms, or he was swinging her around in a circle.

Outside of that, Get Nicked cannot understand how her blue heels got so airborne.

Also, is that other politician behind them ducking, or just picking something off the ground.

In either case, it's impressive that a 67-year-old man can do this without throwing his back out. This columnist is less than half his age and already groans standing up from the couch.

Milo who?

Amidst a moment of national pride is a moment of national embarrassment.

Milo Yiannopoulos is an internet troll best known for getting banned from Twitter for instigating vile racial abuse against actress Leslie Jones.

He used to write for fringe-right website Breitbart, but got sacked after he went on a radio show and advocated for pedophilia.

And when he arrived in Australia for a speaking tour, he was given the fanfare typically reserved for actual celebrities.

It's appalling that so many Australian politicians fawned over a man disavowed by Donald Trump.

Yiannopoulos, who delights in decrying "identity politics" while simultaneously pointing out he's married to a black man, spoke to about 1000 people at a venue in Sydney this week.

Icehouse are playing to 1200 people at a nearby venue next week, and Get Nicked is pretty sure no news media are going to report on that.

Anthony Albanese summed up the Yiannopoulos visit very appropriately.

"The bloke's a tool and I wouldn't have wasted a second on him," Albanese declared.

Well said.

Wrong district

Running for public office is a tiring process. Lots of pressing the flesh, kissing babies, answering tough questions and having every skeleton dragged out of your closet.

So it was heartening to see US Democrat David Trone getting such a wonderful reception at an event in the Washington, DC suburbs.

Wine tycoon Trone is running for Maryland's 8th congressional district, and held an event in the neighbourhood of Potomac.

And Trone managed to win over plenty of supporters.

Problem is, Potomac is in Maryland's 6th congressional district.

So he may have won over the locals, but they are unable to vote for him.

"It’s relatively rare that a candidate for Congress spends his time campaigning for votes among voters who live outside his district – to say nothing about supplying attendees with free wine," political pundit Stu Rothenberg wrote.

"I’m not opposed to other candidates from around the country underwriting my neighbourhood's wine parties, though I do wonder about the ethics of it."